Alcyan: What does Second Life offers that Real Life doesn’t to disabled people and how easy or hard is for a disable person to adjust to this environment?
Fidget: It offers a venue where a 'disabled' person can have a chance to be accepted without having to make our 'disabilities' the predominant factor.
You can 'present' as a 'regular' person, or as the personification that you 'would like to be' -- or anywhere in between.
It offers real-time access to people in locations that I couldn't dream of getting to, thereby opening up a much larger community than just my local physical residency building.
It offers a way for me to mirror image (either through visualization or through actual physical mimicking of what my avatar is doing (say ch'i kung, t'ai chi ch'uan, yoga, dance or other avatar movement) and allows for camaraderie if inclusion with others is my goal.
Or for solo practice if I need alone time.
It can be very challenging for some of us to connect to the actual virtual world. Some of my peers use their eye movements to select and type one letter at a time.
Some hold a stylus in thei mouth to type.
Others use foot entry.
Yet others are blind, deaf, mute, or deal with another aspect of sensing and need various types of technical gadgets to access virtual worlds.
In the case of SL, they may need a different 'viewer' such as Radegast.
They may need to communicate only in text, or only in voice.
What kind of environment a person adjusts to, whether able-bodied or not, can be entirely different than what another person adjusts to.
Alcyan: In real life, people with disability sometimes experience discrimination from the non disable one, how things are here in second life?
Fidget: There is no difference in experiencing discrimination from others in SL, or any other virtual world than there is in the physical world.
However, it is easier to move away from it.
It is easier to join up with those who are not discriminatory because the access to a larger global audience is available.
Discrimination is a lack of awareness, knowledge and a close-minded frame of perspective.
It is not limited to any one 'world'.